by Italo Magno Jau | Oct 17, 2025 | Articles
In the early hours of 13 August 1961, Berliners awoke in a transformed city. Where there had been streets, there was now barbed wire. Where there had been neighbours, there were now soldiers. The Berlin Wall, or “Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart” in the...
by Italo Magno Jau | Oct 15, 2025 | Articles
On the morning of 16 March 1978, Italy awoke to a nightmare that would last 55 days and mark the soul of the nation for ever. Aldo Moro, the architect of the “Historic Compromise” and one of the most respected statesmen in Europe, was kidnapped in a brutal...
by Italo Magno Jau | Oct 13, 2025 | Articles
On 5 September 1972, the world watched in horror as the greatest symbol of peace and global unity, the Olympic Games, was turned into a stage for terror. The Munich Massacre was not only a terrorist attack but also an event that changed for ever the way the world...
by Italo Magno Jau | Oct 10, 2025 | Articles
On 11 June 1963, at a busy crossroads in Saigon, the world witnessed an act of protest so extreme and visually shocking that its image became one of the most enduring symbols of the twentieth century. Thích Quảng Đức, a 66-year-old Mahayana Buddhist monk, calmly sat...
by Italo Magno Jau | Oct 7, 2025 | Articles
In June 1979, Poland was a nation in suspense, a Catholic country chained for more than three decades to an atheist communist regime imposed by Moscow. The air was heavy with the resignation of a people censored, discouraged and watched. Yet beneath the grey surface...
